Hi, my name is Desiree Rincon and I'm a volunteer helping out ACTOR, A Commitment To Our Roots. Most people involved in the comics world at large knows who we are.

Our very exciting news is that we are changing our name to The Hero Initiative on September 4. For those of you who have your own websites, a link to our new logos, available in a variety of formats, can be found at:

Trivial post #345: Sinfest indulges in the meta strip type #4: "how to make a comic strip" comic.

Good times...Â

The harvest is in and GirlAMatic has come away with a bountiful bushel of talent! We are celebrating the debut of no less than SEVEN shiny new series and the return of TWO old favorites!Â

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In the subscription-based Salon we have:

Today we are proud to announce the launch of our new series, Progressions X by Stephen Greenwood-Hyde and Jeff Coleman, on www.adultwebcomics.com!

Progressions X is the erotic adventures of the denizens of Minerva City, a tijuana-bible spinoff of www.progressions.org in which the only constant is that the clothes will inevitably come off.

Not comic news, but, one of my favorite TV personalities of the last decade, Steve Irwin, was killed doing what he loved.

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1732439.htm

Expected, but a pity none the less.Â

It may be called The Long Vigil but if you've been following this slice of horror-themed SciFi from E.C. Nickel, then stay on your toes because it's about to come to an end!

You can read the latest instalment online at Broken Voice Comics now but be prepared ... there are only two more nail-biting pages to go!

Thanks to the fine folks at Comixpedia for inviting me to be a guest blogger. I will attempt to resist the temptation to solely link to vintage TV fall promo videos I find wildly entertaining, like this (watch for the shot of Potsie saluting a magical comet) or this (WARNING: it will take a drill to get this commanding song out of you head). It's both a crime and a national tragedy that the networks don't produce fall promo videos like that anymore. But I digress...

One day I wound up shooting a wedding. Not in that "oh my, too many violent video games these days" manner, but in the video manner. Of course, me being "into computers" as everyone else likes to say, I decided to do a little editing on the computer. That stupid poorly shot badly edited craptastic DVD did one thing for me: it got me into editing.

Ever since, I’ve had a little crush on the art of editing. It's a sorely under appreciated job - the editor nearly has as much control over the quality of the final product as the director. I never really thought about it in relation to comics though - there's no real direct comparison to be made. Artists don't send five versions of a panel to be sifted through and cropped and chosen to be placed in an ever so particular spot on the page.

Action at a Distance, a brilliantly conceived project written by Gili Barlev and illustrated by yours truly, has published it's first issue! Be sure to check it out at http://a3d.comicgenesis.com!

I have just posted my latest theoretical offering for download, "Time Frames... Or Not" where I tackle the assumptions that lead to the (false) belief that successive panels equal moments in time. While the linear sequence of comics' panels may seem on the surface to present a succession of individual moments, the understanding of comics sequences is hardly so simple. This paper explores various assumptions about sequential images to show why panels do not show successive moments in time.